Twelve uncanny tales of the race-haunted nineteenth-century South, by authors both celebrated and obscure, are presented along with background readings, themselves often chilling, placing the tales in a historical context.
Charles L. Crow, Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University, has authored and edited studies of American regional literatures and of American gothic.
Susan Castillo Street, Professor Emerita at King's College London, has published widely on nineteenth-century American literature, colonial writing of the Early Americas, and the Southern Gothic.
